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The move effectively ends Japan's long history of television manufacturing Once one of Japan's most revered electronics brands, Panasonic will no longer manufacture its own televisions. The company has confirmed that all Panasonic-branded TVs will now be built, marketed, and distributed by Chinese manufacturer Skyworth. Under the new arrangement, Skyworth takes full responsibility for manufacturing, sales, and logistics across North America and Europe. Panasonic will remain involved in product design, image processing, and quality assurance – areas where it still claims deep expertise – but physical production and go-to-market execution shift entirely to Shenzhen. At a press event covered by FlatpanelsHD, Panasonic said joint development on next-generation OLED TVs will continue. That includes flagship models built around LG Display's latest Tandem WOLED panels, a dual-stack OLED architecture designed to deliver higher brightness and improved longevity over conventional OLED designs. Panasonic's withdrawal has been a long time coming. In the early 2010s, it controlled more than 40% of the global plasma TV market, ahead of Samsung and LG, according to data from DisplaySearch. Plasma's deep blacks and motion response once made Panasonic a favorite among videophiles, but the technology was expensive to produce and power-hungry compared to the rising LCD panels. When the 2008 global financial crisis squeezed margins across the business, the plasma division never recovered. By 2014, Panasonic had shut down plasma manufacturing entirely and steadily contracted its TV business outside Japan. https://www.techspot.com/news/111445-panasonic-exits-tv-manufacturing-hands-production-skyworth.html

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Be afraid, be very afraid. Anything you own made in china is possibly doing that without your knowledge. https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3132091/chinese-tv-maker-skyworth-under-fire-excessive-data-collection-users?utm_content=article&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR31qScHn5ddK5JESrqD-5IlfCmK5n6yCJnqlUdmA2Rysc5uc_dhHypWwtI#Echobox=1620078768 Chinese TV maker Skyworth under fire for excessive data collection that users call spying Skyworth apologised and ended its partnership with an analytics firm after a user found one of its smart TVs was collecting data on all connected devices. Chinese television maker Skyworth has issued an apology after a consumer found that his set was quietly collecting a wide range of private data and sending it to a Beijing-based analytics company without his consent. A network traffic analysis revealed that a Skyworth smart TV scanned for other devices connected to the same local network every 10 minutes and gathered data that included device names, IP addresses, network latency and even the names of other Wi-Fi networks within range, according to a post last week on the Chinese developer forum V2EX. The data was sent to the Beijing-based firm Gozen Data, the forum user said. Gozen is a data analytics company that specialises in targeted advertising on smart TVs, and it calls itself China‘s first “home marketing company empowered by big data centred on family data”.